Otitis externa: Review and clinical update

American Family Physician

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1510-1516

  Osguthorpe, J David ^a,c   Nielsen, David R ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b American Academy of Otolaryngology   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BENZOCAINE; BORIC ACID; CHLOROXYLENOL; CLOTRIMAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; HYDROCORTISONE; NEOMYCIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POLYMYXIN B; PRAMOCAINE; PRAX; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STEROID; TOLNAFTATE; TRI OTIC; VOSOL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AUDITORY CANAL; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EAR INJURY; EDEMA; EVALUATION; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; HUMAN; OTALGIA; OTOTOXICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PROPHYLAXIS; PRURITUS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ACETIC ACID; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANALGESICS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BENZETHONIUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; HUMANS; OTITIS EXTERNA; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; STEROIDS;

EID: 33750603168     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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